President Donald Trump made a joke about Secret Service agents protecting the White House while 'in blackface,' in remarks he made during a closed-door speech to donors at his private golf club in Florida this past weekend.

Trump made the comment while re-telling a story about the week around Christmas that he spent holed up in the White House in the midst of a government shutdown with aides and family members gone.

The president has spoken in the past about being 'all alone' with just the agents protecting him. During the remarks at a fundraiser, he took his remarks further, according to comments that leaked to Axios.

'They're in the trees, on the lawn,' Trump said of the agents. Trump then said he saw agents sporting night vision goggles. 'They're in blackface,' Trump quipped.

'They're in blackface,' Trump reportedly said of Secret Service agents guarding the White House, in a comment that referred to their security masks and goggles

Trump said they were in blackface due to the masks, so maybe 'they have to take them away.'

Sources who passed on the comments said Trump was most likely making a joke about Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who initially apologized after the emergence of a decades-old blackface photo on Northam's page in his medical school yearbook. He later said he was not either of the people pictures: a person in blackface and someone wearing a Ku Klux Klan costume.

A guest, one of three to describe the event, called the remarks a 'bizarre tangent.'

Trump made reference to the ski masks that agents have worn while protecting the White House in cold conditions

Donors took the comment as a joke about Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and his blackface controversy

President Trump and Melania Trump arrive in Palm Beach aboard Air Force One

COLD COMFORT: U.S. Secret Service Uniform Division officers stand watch as heavy snow falls at the White House February 20, 2019 in Washington, DC

Trump reportedly made the comments at a closed-door meeting of big donors to the Republican National Committee.

Security guards confiscated guests' cell phones, so there does not appear to be a recording of his comments.

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Trump tweeted in the midst of a shutdown, borne out of an angry fight over his proposed border wall, 'I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security.'

First Lady Melania Trump had left the White House for Mar-a-Lago, but returned on Christmas Eve.

Trump during his remarks also rolled out nicknames for some of the candidates vying to replace him. He called Vice President Joe Biden 'the dummy,' and referred to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as 'the nutty professor.'